Brooklyn Bridge
Central Park Fall
Sunrise Rock
Camera Obscura
I made my first picture using camera obscura techniques in my darkened living room in 1991. In setting up a room to make this kind of photograph, I cover all windows with black plastic in order to achieve total darkness. Then, I cut a small hole in the material I use to cover the windows. This opening allows an inverted image of the view outside to flood onto the back walls of the room. Typically then I focused my large-format camera on the incoming image on the wall then make a camera exposure on film. In the beginning, exposures took from five to ten hours.
Over time, this project has taken me from my living room to all sorts of interiors around the world. One of the satisfactions I get from making this imagery comes from my seeing the weird and yet natural marriage of the inside and outside.
A few years ago, in order to push the visual potential of this process, I began to use color film and positioned a lens over the hole in the window plastic in order to add to the overall sharpness and brightness of the incoming image. Now, I often use a prism to make the projection come in right side up. I have also been able to shorten my exposures considerably thanks to digital technology, which in turn makes it possible to capture more momentary light. I love the increased sense of reality that the outdoor has in these new works .The marriage of the outside and the inside is now made up of more equal partners.
The statement for this collection of images by Abelardo Morell corrected my assumption that these were simply projected images on various living settings. My original interpretation was just that these were installations; I found it interesting that the artist would project images across furniture and uneven surfaces, as it warps the image and I like the idea of only receiving a vague impression of what the image might be (although in these it's easy to tell what the images were of).
I've considered using photography, light and projection for a while. This is just a consideration of different ways I could utilise these elements.
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